and of course we know that prison sentences are longer for blacks than whites for the same crime, that blacks are more likely than whites to be given prison sentences...death row is also racially biased. those are facts....but some still believe race is no factor, when in fact study after study shows it very much is.
http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB100014...04463789858002
that's just one of many articles on the subject.
people need to quit pretending there's not an issue here. it needs to be accepted, faced, addressed. note in that article that since the scotus ruling, sentences returned to what they'd been before the guidelines were adopted.
here's another:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/07/we...ater.html?_r=0
note the disparity of searches conducted...and so often, whites are shown to be caught more often than others wih contraband, yet they are still searched less often! talk about perception vs reality!!